NF-826 Underground Wire Locator & Cable Tracer/Buried Wire Tracer and Cable Locator/Under Ground Circuit Tracer,for Dog Fence Cables Irrigation Control Wires,Tone Generator Kit (Professional Grade)

Reasonably accurate for an inexpensive tool. Blue tape with this circuit tracer. Orange tape was using the power sensor on the stud finder. This tool was much closer to the hidden wires.

If you know what you're doing, and you want to generate a tone, that you want to trace, this is the device for the money.

I did buy it to find a damaged cable, but I tried using it to locate one of the MC cables, and it actually helped me identify the correct cable through the greenfield among the entire bundle of cables.

I was skeptical about using the unit for tracing dog fence wiring after reading the info booklet which came with the unit. Those doubts evaporated as I began to use the unit. It was and is great! I did add a lea5her boot lace to the sensing unit so I could swing it close to the ground and that small addition worked very well. The recharging of the units was rapid and the battery charges never ran out before I did.

Low accuracy. It is not ideal for its intended use

An awesome tool I wish I had 20 years ago. Very simple to hook up and operate. I looked for a dog fence break with a shovel for two weeks. This found it within <1/4" in 5 minutes. The very first shovel of dirt and there it was. If you need better accuracy, you'll need to buy an X-Ray machine. Consider this: the tool itself is ~$140. How much would it cost to have a dog fence repair company to fix one break, one time ? And...you'll have this tool as long as you care to keep it for any future breaks.It also will find UNbroken wires (120v/invisible fence/12v/coax/CATV/telephone/sheilded/etc) buried underground, even inside a finished wall. The only drawback, is that the instructions are a "pretty good" translation from Chinese (where it's made). That said, they are in reality really easy to understand anyway. You will definitely not be disappointed with this.

We purchased our home from the original owner. They left no specific sprinkler information. Sprinkler repair services were charging $250 to map out our system with no guarantees. I hooked up the transmitter to the zone control wires. Was able to trace out the wiring across our property. Controllers were buried about 1 foot below the grade. The NF-826 worked perfectly. The are easy to use, use rechargeable batteries and offer adjustable TX power to fine tune location. I can strongly recommend this product.

Instructions are not clear how to hook up to a particular system, like a dog electric fenceOnce figured out, with help from others, it worked well. Was able to walk around the property to find all the underground wiresThere should be examples for the novice for different applicationsOn line help wasn’t any better